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By Mediaguy
Writing I f you think you don’t know how to write, can I ask you to answer one question?

Well Bad If you can talk, you can write.
Do you know how to talk?

How to poetic or even public relations standards.
However, your writing may not be up to certain journalistic or narrative or

Write When That’s not so important. You learn as you go in those stylistic conventions.

What you have to have is ideas.

You Think And a good editor.

Every writer has an editor - even Stephen King and Seymour Hersh have
You’re Not editors - who may not improve their work much, but they do improve it
somewhat.

That’s the second editor, the “good” editor, the one who vets all material
a Writer or before it appears in whatever publication, print or online, for which one writes.
Sometimes, it’s a simple question of spelling names of countries, political
leaders, etc., correctly - they have rules. The New York Times will spell Osama
No Good one way, while the Washington times spells it another - but consistently.

The second editor will also cut verbiage, in a way to make one idea explained
in two different ways as one, to shore up on print space.

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